You may remember that, over 2 years ago (!) I fell in love with Kim O’Donnel’s The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour. Kim’s book inspired me to make tempeh for the first time and I’ve had success with everything I’ve made out of that book. This year for Christmas my sister [...]
This is the first weekend in a long time that I haven’t had a million things going on. It feels so good. After reading blogs, writing and taking care of this week’s grocery shopping, I wasn’t sure I’d ever find the motivation to get off the couch. But I kept thinking about how annoyed I’d [...]
This is a very pretty apple galette. It also taught me a very important lesson. Here is the story of the most recent time I set our smoke detector off. Our CSA sometimes has apples, which is awesome, but they don’t always look as good as I’d hope. Brian suggested that we use our most [...]
In case you hadn’t heard, today is National Clam Chowder Day. If you want to celebrate, may I recommend making this chowder from Healthy.Delicious? I made it last week, because celebrations of things as important as chowder should last more than 1 day. I substituted an extra carrot for the parsnips and used full fat [...]
Tomorrow’s the deadline to submit entries for the Pinstrosity challenge. Luckily the holiday has afforded me the opportunity to put together one last recipe. Source: sweetpeasandsaffron.com via Emily on Pinterest When this pin for Cranberry, Lime and Coconut Loaf from Sweet Peas and Saffron found its way to my pin board, I knew I’d [...]
I am not a Pinterest addict. I am, however, an occasional Pinterest user. Somehow I’m managed to avoid the obsession that’s captured so many of my twenty-something peers, but I don’t think it’s because I’ve got better willpower. Seems much more likely that it’s just the last thing on my long list of social media [...]
I spent a lot of time with my oven in the week before Christmas. After a busy few months, I finally had time to bake. Good thing, because in the 9 days before December 25th, I had 2 cookie swaps to attend, as well as some personal projects. I tried to keep my swap cookies [...]
Having made the decision not to visit my family until after Christmas day and thereby giving ourselves our first Christmas celebration with just the two of us, I really wanted to cook something special. Brian put in an early request for his family’s traditional Christmas breakfast of pierogies, kielbasa and scrambled eggs. Knowing that meal [...]
It’s hard to believe that I’ve completed the last month of my Whole Grains Council inspired, self-imposed, Grain of the Month challenge. It’s been fun and I’ve definitely tried a lot of new foods, but I’m looking forward to not running around searching for ingredients and then finding several ways to use them in order [...]
On September 9th, I ventured to the farmer’s market. My market attendance has gone way down since we started getting produce from our CSA a couple years ago, but I like to stop by occasionally to see if there’s anything I’m not getting from the farm. At this time of year that something is generally [...]
